Hughes v. Williams

Mr. Presiding Justice Denis E. Sullivan

delivered the opinion of the court.

Frank C. Hughes filed a complaint in the superior court to contest the will of his mother, Mary H. Hughes, deceased, and to compel an accounting by his brothers, Edmond A. Hughes, George A. Hughes, and William V. Hughes, and his sister, Helen Hughes Dulany, for property which he alleged belonged to his mother at the time of her death and should have been inventoried as part of the assets of her estate by the administrator.

One of the defendants, George A. Hughes, incorporated in his answer a motion to strike the…